Management Team

Mark Hopkins
Executive Vice President - Wealth Management Services

Mark Hopkins is Executive Vice President of Wealth Management Services for WorkLife Financial Inc. He is responsible for the financial planning and brokerage operations of the Company conducted through LPL Financial. His duties include managing the Financial Consultants in the group as well as monitoring their performance and compensation. Mr. Hopkins is instrumental in the analysis, purchase and integration of financial planning practices, a key avenue of growth for Wealth Management Services.

From 1997 to 2007, Mr. Hopkins was Executive Vice President of Strategic Financial Services, Inc., and Senior Financial Consultant of Strategic Wealth Management Services, Inc. His responsibilities included the financial planning and brokerage operations of the Company conducted through LPL Financial, and managing the Financial Consultants in the group as well as monitoring their performance and compensation.

Mr. Hopkins earned his Bachelor of Business Administration degree with a Management major from Central Michigan University in 1990. While at Central Michigan University, he played varsity football for four years and earned the distinctions of Academic All-Mid American Conference, the University of Michigan Humanitarian Award and the Bill Boyden Award (awarded annually to the top student-athlete at Central Michigan University).

After playing professional football for several years, Mr. Hopkins began his career as a financial advisor at American Express Financial Advisors. In late 1996, Mr. Hopkins left American Express to help develop Strategic Wealth Management Services, Inc., where, for 9 years, he was recognized as a Chairman’s Club Level producer, ranking in the top 6% of 8,000 advisors throughout the country, for LPL Financial.

Mr. Hopkins holds the Series 7, Series 63, variable contracts, life insurance and health insurance licenses.